Dawn Hawk

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Holy shit.

25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

Had a great conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social about the German far right, its relationship to MAGA, the global struggle against authoritarian rightwing ethno-nationalism - and the question of how to best counter it.

Thank you Gloria Steinem—a world where women and girls are equally respected is a world I want to live in

DEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

While other public figures remained silent about HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, Dolly Parton spoke up Her production company co-produced the 1989 Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, about people memorialised on the famous Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

[Exit Queen.]

Many tourists and businesspeople now avoid the US, as anti-inclusion policies render it a "hostile state" for global travel Attacking people of different races and cultures is extremely unpopular globally, causing many billions of dollars damage to the US economy #Inclusion #DEI #Tourism

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

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This is an appalling and intended to silence us in challenging racism. Get louder and braver.

Yes! Hate Politics needs to be consigned to the trash everywhere The LGBTQ+ community in Hungary in particular has been holding its breath: Orban tried to ban 2025 Budapest Pride and many thousands of Hungarians of all backgrounds attended, to flood the streets against him bsky.app/profile/mria...

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Nice meeting good people at the No Kings protest in Paris #NoKings #Paris #Minneapolis 28 March 2026

Justice Jackson dissented about callous treatment of immigrants through the majority’s “grave misuse” of the shadow docket, & the “bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our government has promised them.” Looks like she got through to them.

A really difficult, really important read by our pal Will Selber. grumpycombatveteran.substack.com/p/an-afghan-...

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Maher: So being Christian is an important part of being truly American? Boebert: Absolutely Talarico: I always speak up on behalf of my non-Christian neighbors. Because we as Christians are called to love them as ourselves, and forcing my religion down their throats is not love.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

RIP Jesse Jackson (Jacob Lawrence's portrait of Jesse Jackson, created in 1970 for cover of Time magazine, now in collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery) npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

Herbert List. "The dark impressions of Paris seem at odds with our concept of List as the master of Mediterranean sunlight".

"Love is the natural north star to look for in any character’s life. What we’re trying to find is what has driven them off-course. What has made them doubtful, uncertain of themselves and others, wary, wounded, lost." - David Corbett

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime. www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

"In the worst cases, the infected would die from liver cancer before reaching adulthood. Brian McMahon, a physician who treated some of those cases, told me about one particular patient—'18 years old, 4.0 GPA, with a full ride to University of Alaska.'"

Hey, @washingtonpost.com. USPS didn’t “post a $X loss in 2025.” It’s a 233-year-old public service that cost $X to run. By that logic, your local fire department “posts a loss” just by existing between fires. Those aren’t the same thing. After 148 years of reporting, you should know better by now.

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I don't know if this is my favorite Todd Snider song, or the best Todd Snider song but it is undisputably the most Todd Snider song. Rest in chaos to my hero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYi...

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Sammy Davis Jr. had an astonishing, confounding career. Questlove writes about what he learned from the great showman:

For millions of Americans, today will bring the chance to be heard. If there's an election where you live, then you get to send a message on the policies and leadership you believe in - and begin changing the trajectory of this country.